CAMP WALKER, South Korea — Just before soccer season began, Osan American girls basketball coach Bruce Barker, just off a Far East Class A Tournament championship, approached soccer coach Sung Plourde and said: "Your turn."

Just as Barker had been told by Cari Pease after the Cougars won the Girls Class A Volleyball Tournament title.

Plourde and the Cougars held up their end. Bria Pressley scored seven goals as Osan won four matches in a 10-hour span Thursday, including 4-0 and 4-1 victories over Matthew C. Perry in a two-match title round.

The victory helped Osan win its first championship since 2006 and repeat its Far East title trifecta of girls volleyball, basketball and soccer back in 2001-2002.

"I still can’t believe it," said senior goalkeeper Celine Baldevia, one of two players who played all three sports this school year. "A dream come true. I never thought it would be possible. What a great year."

"This feels incredible," said sophomore sweeper Alina Hauter, the other three-title athlete. "I’m so lucky to be part of a school that did this twice."

Trifecta No. 2, Plourde and his players said, was special because of the four-match marathon.

"The first time was more meaningful," Plourde said. "But I’m proud of the kids. They worked hard. We had one goal in mind this season, and we kept the trifecta in the back of our head. We came together, especially in the lower bracket. Four matches in one day."

Pressley, who scored a pair of hat tricks against Perry, said she’d had doubts they could pull off four victories. But as the Cougars beat Morrison Christian Academy 3-1, then ousted Daegu American 5-2, Pressley said, "I knew we had the heart. Especially as a freshman, this is amazing."

For the Samurai, it was a heartbreaking end to yet another so-close-and-yet-so-far season. Perry lost in the 2007 final, and was ousted in the first round of the playoffs last year.

"Hats off to Osan. They really wanted it," Perry coach Chris Anderson said. "They’re well-coached, disciplined, they worked hard, and they finished. They deserved it."

Meanwhile, defending champion Yongsan International-Seoul left nothing to chance in the Boys Class A Tournament final at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. The Guardians repeated by blanking Robert D. Edgren 8-0; Jon Park, David Kim and Daniel Cho each scored two goals.

Edgren had hoped to match Osan’s four-match effort, having ousted Perry 2-1 in a penalty-kick shootout, Osan 2-0 and E.J. King 2-0 before coming up short against YIS-Seoul. Brandon Massie scored all five regulation goals for the Eagles despite a sore Achilles’ tendon.

"We sat him the first 20 minutes (against Perry), and he said, ‘I want off the bench. Put me in the game,’ " Eagles coach Steve DeLuna said. "He didn’t give up. He wanted to take it all the way home."

Several firsts occurred in the Class AA Tournaments.

Zama American’s girls reached the first title match in school history; the Trojans, with Saki Johnson scoring two goals and Aubrey Ashliman scoring her 45th of the season, shut out Faith Academy 3-0 and faced Kubasaki in Friday’s final.

"It feels great," said coach Rogers Pitts, whose Trojans sport the best record in school history at 23-4-4 entering the final.

Zama tied Kubasaki 0-0 in pool play; thus, Pitts said he wasn’t counting on anything. "The job’s not over until the game tomorrow. We’re not taking anything for granted," he said.

Elizabeth Fabila and former three-time champion Kubasaki blanked Kadena 1-0 in the other semifinal, beating the Panthers for the fourth time this season and reaching its third straight Class AA title match berth.

For the first time in Boys Class AA Tournament history, no DODDS teams and no Okinawa teams played for the title.

That honor went to Christian Academy In Japan, a 1-0 semifinal winner over Zama, and Hong Kong International, which ousted defending champion Kubasaki 3-0. CAJ was aiming for its third Class AA title in five years; Hong Kong was chasing its first.

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